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He Was a Monk, Then a Billionaire and Now an Alleged Tax Cheat • Oct. 16, 2024, 11:33 PM ET (Wall Street Journal)
More than half of Cambodian children are severely beaten. Monks are helping to change that • Oct. 16, 2024, 8:33 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Monk in Hong Kong accused of misleading public over reasons for meat consumption • Oct. 4, 2024, 3:33 AM ET (South China Morning Post)

monk, man who separates himself from society and lives either alone (a hermit or anchorite) or in an organized community in order to devote himself full time to religious life. See monasticism.

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